Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
The Tongzhou mutiny, sometimes referred to as the Tongzhou Massacre, was an assault on Japanese civilians and troops by the security forces of East Hebei Autonomous Government in T…
Tongzhou mutiny: In Tongzhou, China, the East Hebei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until hi…
Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH…
Joseph Ejercito Estrada, also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor who served as the 13th President of the Philippines from 1998 until his removal …
Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines
Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist.
Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2011)
Harvey Quaytman was a geometric abstraction painter best known for large modernist canvases with powerful monochromatic tones, in layered compositions, often with hard edges - insp…
Harvey Quaytman, American painter and educator (died 2002)
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second …
Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Second Spanish Republic.
The Second Sino-Japanese War, known in China as the War of Resistance Against Japan, was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan and its puppet states between …
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
On August 18, 1937, a lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire in Shoshone National Forest, approximately 35 miles (56 km) west of Cody, Wyoming, United States. Fifteen firefig…
A lightning strike starts the Blackwater Fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest, killing 15 firefighters within…
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second …
Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
George Takei is an American actor, author, and activist. He is known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
George Takei, American actor
Gary Charles Peters was an American professional baseball player. He was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played on two major league teams for 14 seasons, from 1959 …
Gary Peters, American baseball player (died 2023)
Ben T. Zinn is an American academic in engineering and former international soccer player. He is the David S. Lewis Jr., Chair and Regents' Professor at the Georgia Institute of Te…
Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player
John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, often playing charismatic rebels f…
Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
Victoria Glendinning is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literat…
Victoria Glendinning, English author and critic
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of th…
Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
The Nyon Conference was a diplomatic conference held in Nyon, Switzerland, in September 1937 to address attacks on international shipping in the Mediterranean Sea during the Spanis…
Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of prod…
Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 2000)
David Cecil Mills was an English cricketer. Mills was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Camborne, Cornwall and educated at Clifton College, wh…
David Mills, English cricketer (died 2013)
Barry Kenneth Shepherd was an Australian cricketer who played in nine Test matches from 1963 to 1965.
Barry Shepherd, Australian cricketer (died 2001)
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading Americ…
Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (died 2001)
Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise was a French racing driver and motorcycle road racer, who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1962 to 1964, and Formula One from 1966…
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (died 2015)
Sandra Dale Dennis was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia…
Sandy Dennis, American actress (died 1992)
Robert Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames is an Anglican bishop and life peer, who served as Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
Robin Eames, Irish Anglican archbishop
Richard Nelson Perham, FRS, FMedSci, FRSA, was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge 2004–07. He was also editor-in-c…
Richard Perham, English biologist and academic (died 2015)